Ismaïl Omar Guellé is a Djiboutian politician who has served as the President of Djibouti since 1999,making him one of the longest-serving rulers in Africa. He is often referred to by his initials,IOG.
Moussa Faki MahamatMūsāFakīMuḥammad,born 21 June 1960) is a Chadian politician and diplomat who has been the elected Chairperson of the African Union Commission since 14 March 2017. Previously he was Prime Minister of Chad from 24 June 2003 to 4 February 2005 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from April 2008 to January 2017. Faki,a member of the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS),belongs to the Zaghawa ethnic group,the same group as the late President Idriss Déby.
Dileita Mohamed Dileita is a Djiboutian politician who was the prime minister of Djibouti from 7 March 2001 to 1 April 2013. He was vice-president of the People's Rally for Progress (RPP),the governing political party,until 2012. He also served as president of the Union for the Presidential Majority (UMP),the governing coalition. He was elected President of the National Assembly on 5 March 2023.
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga was the Prime Minister of Mali from 2004 to 2007. Issoufi had previously held several ministerial posts in previous governments.
Idriss Arnaoud Ali was a Djiboutian politician who was President of the National Assembly of Djibouti from 2003 to 2015. He was also the Secretary-General of the People's Rally for Progress (RPP) from 2003 to 2012.
Tertius Zongo was the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from June 2007 to April 2011.
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana is a Guinean politician who served as Prime Minister of Guinea between 21 May 2018 and 5 September 2021.
Choguel Kokalla Maïga is a Malian politician and President of the Patriotic Movement for Renewal,a political party in Mali,and current Prime Minister of the Transition. He served in the government as Minister of Industry and Trade from 2002 to 2007 and later as Minister of the Digital Economy,Information and Communication from 2015 to 2016. On 4 June 2021,he was named Prime Minister of the Transition by coup leader &newly appointed President of Transition Assimi Goïta.
Mohamed Ali Mohamed was a Djiboutian politician of the People's Rally for Progress (PDP).
Pierre Moussa is a Congolese politician who has been President of the Commission of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa since 2012. He served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Planning from 1979 to 1991;later,he was Minister of Spatial Planning from 1997 to 2002,Minister of Planning from 2002 to 2009,and Minister of State for the Economy and Planning from 2009 to 2012.
Louis-Paul Motazé is a Cameroonian politician who has served in the government of Cameroon as Minister of the Economy since 2015. He previously served as Minister of the Economy from 2007 to 2011 and as Secretary-General of the Office of the Prime Minister of Cameroon from 2011 to 2015. Since 2 March 2018,he has been Minister of Finance of Cameroon.
Moussa Diakité was a Guinean politician during the presidency of Ahmed Sékou Touré. He was a member of the national Politburo. His wife,Tata Keïta,was half sister of the President's wife Andrée,and his son married the eldest daughter of Ismael Touré,the president's brother.
Matata Ponyo Mapon is a Congolese political figure who was Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 18 April 2012 to 17 November 2016. Previously he served as Minister of Finance from 21 February 2010 to 12 April 2012;as Prime Minister,he retained responsibility for the finance portfolio. He currently serves as Senator for Maniema.
Ramtane Lamamra is an Algerian diplomat who has been serving as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' Personal Envoy for Sudan since 2023.
Rosine Sori-Coulibaly is a Burkinabéeconomist and politician. She served as the minister of foreign affairs from 2021 to 2022. After being in the running to become the prime minister of Burkina Faso,she served as the minister of economy,finance and development from 2016 to 2019.
Lula Ali Ismaïl is a Djibouti-Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is the first woman from Djibouti to produce a film,earning her the nickname of "the first lady of the Djibouti cinema." The directed the 27-minute fiction short Laan (2011). The film was screened at the 2012 Montreal Vues d'Afrique festival,and in 2013 at FESPACO. In 2014 she started working on a feature film,Dhalinyaro,co-written with Alexandra Ramniceanu and Marc Wels. The film,Djibouti's first feature film,premiered in July 2017.
Kaba Nialé is an Ivorian politician who has been serving as Minister of Planning and Development and President of the Board of Governors of African Development Bank (AFDB) since 2019.
Amadou Hott is the Special Envoy of the President of the African Development Bank for the Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa. His is a Senegalese economist and investment banker,and served as Minister of Economy,Planning and International Cooperation of Senegal in the Fourth Sall government from April 2019 to September 2022. He was formerly the Vice President of the African Development Bank's Power,Energy,Green Growth and Climate Change Complex,a position he held from November 2016 until his Senegalese government appointment. Hott's career has spanned more than 20 years in areas including structured finance,sovereign fund management,investment banking,fundraising,infrastructure and the development of integrated energy solutions.
Nadia Fettah Alaoui is a Moroccan entrepreneur and politician. Since October she is the current Minister of Economy and Finance in the Cabinet of Aziz Akhannouch.
The Achi II government governed the Ivory Coast from 20 April 2022 to 6 October 2023.
